Abstract:
Developing nations lack the technological skill, infrastructure, and ability to tackle or plan for environmental and social sustainability or resilience to emerging global adversities (UN, ND; Utoikamanu, 2018; El Hajj, Montes, & Jawad, 2021). Cities house more than 50% of the planet’s population in neighbourhoods and can suffer from…[Read more]

The focus of this study is on the influence of urban ‘woods’ on people’s quality of life in disadvantaged neighbourhoods investigated via the lens of architecture in a Sub-Saharan metropolis. The new intra-Covid Urban Agenda acknowledges that current urban and state-wide resilience management plans, policies, and practices of neighbourhood are…[Read more]

The focus of this study is on the influence of urban ‘woods’ on people’s quality of life in disadvantaged neighbourhoods investigated via the lens of architecture in a Sub-Saharan metropolis. The new intra-Covid Urban Agenda acknowledges that current urban and state-wide resilience management plans, policies, and practices of neighbourhood are…[Read more]

The newly formed Greater Romania engaged in a process of modernization, with Bucharest as its flagship metropolis, striving to be recognized internationally and reach economic stability. Women’s fashion became a marker in substantiating Romania’s self-assertion as a modern state, with great emphasis on creating a viable textile industry. This occ…[Read more]

This paper delineates the conceptual variations between the notions ‘fashion’, ‘dress’ and ‘costume’ in English-language texts on women’s garment histories using relevant examples from interwar Romanian periodicals. The aim is to offer a more precise formulation, as these three terms have largely been used interchangeably. This paper is built on a…[Read more]

(Sobre el «Discurso a Diogneto» y la literatura cristiana primitiva).
En este trabajo, se lleva a cabo un concienzudo estudio del «Discurso a Diogneto» o «Epistola a Diogneto» (como queramos llamar a este texto). Y en él, su autor destaca como rasgos fundamentales:
—El carácter muy temprano de este texto, que intentó armonizar la Iglesia co…[Read more]

In the 1890s, Camden Municipal Council started beautifying the town area by planting various trees, including peppercorns. These cultural plantings defined the local urban landscape for decades, yet only a handful remain today.

The drawing ‘Autonomous Terrace’ by anarchist artist Clifford Harper was published first in the book ‘Radical Technology’ in 1974 as part of a series of illustrations “that although they are utopian images they depict an existence that is immediately approachable” (Harper 1984, p. 99). In Harper’s (ibid.) words, “all it would take is the seizing…[Read more]

Once again, country show societies are gearing up for the annual New South Wales Miss Showgirl competition. In 2008 500 young women entered the pageant at a local level representing 120 show societies, with the Sydney Royal Easter Show finals. The 2011 Camden Miss Showgirl has attracted seven young local women – four of the seven are university s…[Read more]

Como ya saben muchos de mis amigos y seguidores de Internet, suelo organizar casi todos los meses un foro-debate en Academia.edu sobre asuntos que normalmente giran en torno a la antropología social y cultural, pero también relativos a asuntos destacados de la historia antigua y de la crítica textual, campos en los que normalmente se de…[Read more]

In central Camden is an empty bank building of understated significance at the intersection of John and Argyle Streets. This building was once the premises of Westpace, formerly the Bank of New South Wales, and was the second banking chamber on that site. Constructed in the 1930s by a prominent firm of Sydney architects, the building is of much…[Read more]

One of the hidden parts of the history of Camden NSW are the Interwar years. Few know the stories of the buildings, characters and events of the town. This article is an overview of the community’s built heritage at a time when the town underwent a building boom driven by the wealth generated by the Burragorang coalfields.

The foreword of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022)

The foreword of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022)

The establishment of Camden in 1840 was a private venture of James and William Macarthur, sons of colonial patriarch John Macarthur, at the Nepean River crossing on the northern edge of the family’s pastoral property of Camden Park. The town’s site was enclosed on three sides by a sweeping bend in the Nepean River and has regularly flooded the…[Read more]

Prédio sito na Calçada de Sant’Ana tornejando para a Rua do Instituto Bacteriológico, LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q90315009). 16 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The cop…[Read more]

Av. Duque d’Avila 18 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98462960). 6 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain exclusively…[Read more]

Palácio da Mitra, Marvila, LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q74474222). 2 October 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain e…[Read more]

Av. Duque d’Avila 24 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98462953) . 4 September 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain exclusively…[Read more]

Palacete na Rua Dr Alexandre Braga ODIVELAS PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q66814413). 10 October 2021. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture…[Read more]